On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the … - Walter Sickert

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Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing. . . We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings. . . I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. . . The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Walter Sickert

On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take', the deaf canvas listens, your words flow and you have done something.

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